On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 09:15:23AM +0100, john doe wrote: > On 1/19/2018 11:35 PM, Jack Bates wrote: > >Thanks for your help, but when I boot with DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text, > >it affects only the *local* console ... In other words, when I > >boot with "DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text modules=network-console", the > >local console does display the text frontend, but when I ssh in, I > >still get the default frontend (newt). > > > >How do I choose the network-console frontend? > > > > It's not realy an answer (sorry). > > I tryed the following to no avail: > > $ export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text > $ ssh installer@<ip|hostname> -o SendEnv=DEBIAN_FRONTEND > > Shell prompt in the installer: > - Exporting DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text > - There are no file related to ssh that I can find. > > > From what I gather online you might have more chances with the > following (untested): > > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/apbs03.html.en
apbs03 is appendix B section 3 Appendix B is "Automating the installation using preseeding" Section 3 is "Creating a preconfiguration file" Having a preseed file makes is it possible to _not_ using a front end. > Please let me know if you find a way to get the frontend as text > when installing Debian using ssh. What I want to contribute to this discussion: https://superuser.com/questions/48783/how-can-i-pass-an-environment-variable-through-an-ssh-command There are warnings/notions about ssh-client wants, must be allowed by the ssh-server. When it is all fine at SSH level, then there _might be_ the dragon of DEBIAN_FRONTEND not being check, just being set to 'newt' :-( > P.S. You might be better of asking on debian-user! :) If succesfull, please report here also. Thing is the two mailinglists have different audience. debian-user is roughly for "it works, but how get it working" debian-boot is for development of debian-installer. Where I understand that newt frontend is a good default for SSH installs, do I see several reasons for text frontend as a nice to have. * no mis match in charcter sets between install target and ssh client. ( getting lots of question marks where lines or corner symbols are ) * when CPU-cycles are expensive, don't waste then on newt formatting * getting output from the install client that is easier parsed then newt output, so making automation easier. ( IIRC there is HTTP frontend for automation, however SSH gives encrypted transmission ) Long story short: I think this a debian-installer development question. Please keep [email protected]. in the loop. Groeten Geert Stappers -- Leven en laten leven
